Bobby_2021

You are imagining effort. Not just at God levels, but even at human and personal level.

Yes. Reality should be effortless. Effort is just a concept in your mind that has relevance only if you think about it. You can do it effortlessly or with huge amount of effort. But the default case scenario is that we don't know how to do things effortlessly. Once we break the illusion, those things that required effort become second nature to us.

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We should be doubling down on nuclear energy for 80%. And put the rest of effort into renewables if you are serious. I am getting the feeling that people are not serious. They want to feel like they are doing something rather than get tangible results. Nuclear energy is the only thing that can save us. Renewable energy is a fad.

That hundred 147 points has more in value compared to a 1000 points at sub 2000 levels. That last 100 points requires as much work as getting 1000 points at some lower levels. And 16 year old kids from china break the 2700 rating mark as if it nothing. As far as I can remember, I have never seen a female player break 2700 mark except for Judit Polgar. ----- Here is what you need to understand: The best female chess players on the planet already most probably are playing chess at professional level. The best male chess players on the planet are already played chess at professional level. Adding more female/male players into the mix will NOT significantly change the environment at the top. The top is full of outliers and they do not represent normies and you are only talking about adding more normies into the mix. Men as a whole are far more interested to play chess even for fun because of their logical nature. The whole study starts with the assumption that men and women are equal in logical capacity to begin with. With that assumption, you go looking for explanations to confirm that World view and pick on participation rates. In fact the participation theory has been disproved by studies which took countries with different proportion of women who play chess and found that it has minimal impact on performance at the top.

The idea that participation rates affect difference in performance has been tested and found to be true in the sample size they took from India. Here is a twitter thread explaining it. Another guy did manage to replicate the results in the case of India. But that doesn't hold up for other countries. https://followtheargument.org/gender-differences-among-top-performers-in-chess Difference in participation do not explain difference in performance overall. I remember reading a much better technical refutation of the claim, but I couldn't manage to find that paper. ---- You can take a preferred sample size as you want. Take the women chess player across the whole world (bigger participation) and take the male chess players from any country( smaller participation) and measure the difference in performance. Partition rates and top performance are a whole different things.

First of all, what kinds of PHDs, in what kinds of domain are you talking about. There is a phd course for everything nowadays. A lot of it is pure BS. College has been degrading in value since everyone had access to them. A lot of men who are more than capable of earning a PHD simply choose not to.

You can measure the freedom of choice. There are countries that offers more freedom of choice and we can measu the outcomes in such countries. In India there is a higher % of women in stem compared to united states or Scandinavia. Apparently sociological factors have been forcing women to choose jobs/degrees that were not in alignment with their interests. I can personally confirm this.

Why more men play chess than women? Why more men watch philosophy videos than women? Why more men choose STEM than women? Why women in countries with high freedom index choose less stem subjects compared to women in countries with less freedom? Obviously women don't proactively take an interest in logical things. And it's ok. It's not sexiest by any means. And if observing differences makes you sexist, then I am sexist.

1. Are all differences, the same? I am not talking about a specific distinction, but the abstract nature of a distinction/difference. What is the abstract level nature of a difference and how does it relate to other differences? Here Leo says that there is more to reality than distinctions. How can that be possible? There should only be more distinctions. Right? Thoughts??

Any updates on this?

Do you see any difference between the visual experience of a tree and a cat? Are there two letters the same or different? A B - Different B B - Same This difference exists in the visual experience. You can choose to build on top of it by conceptualizing. ----- When I say I make distinctions what I mean is that I imagine a distinction in my mind. Visual experience is God's mind. I can recognize and conceptualize that in my human mind. All minds are capable of coming up with distinction. The human mind itself is a distinction imagined by the mind of God.

The words you are seeing on a screen are distinctions in reality.

Reality is the imagination of distinctions. That's what I am trying to get with this thread. I see Nothing but distinctions. And it's not mental constructions, although those are made up of distinctions as well. There is nothing behind the veil. Veil is the thing. I can get behind this. Distinctions are fundamentally a thought in the mind of God. Distinctions can also be imagined in the human mind. That's already a distinction. Whaaat?? A tree is a car because tree is different from a cat. And that's not a language gane here. I am talking about an actual car and an actual tree. Those are Distinctions thought of in the mind of God. Physical reality is composed of distinctions. Good analogy. I am still racking my head over this. Well said. Definitely something to conemp over a long time.

Where do you want this thread to go? This thread is for covering the legal aspects of the Tate case, evidence, his statements and it's future course. If you don't discuss facts here, then the default case is someone spreading disinformation from Tate which are nothing but embarrassing lies. This thread is far from dead. If you really understood this, it's only beginning since the investigation isn't even over. More serious charges are pending. Perhaps this thread will be dead when they are convicted.Which is my speculation after looking at the case. --- Talking about Trump isn't a derailment. They are members of the Tate camp, aka the Far right. Even the supposed right wing but non Trump supporters have shunned Tate. This includes the people covering the case. They are not left wing, but surprisingly right wing. The left camp is still triggered about his misogyny statements lol. That's a distraction since he did far more heinous things which are not even known outside.

Can you give me such an interpretation of the God's mind, independent of distinctions? And perception is Truth. Perceptions are distinctions imagined by God. I didn't use any complex logical statements enough to deconstruct here. It's impossible to imagine a reality independent of distinctions

It looks more like you need a rest from Leo. ?

The charges are not yet finalized. Charges related to minor trafficking and money laundering are pending and they will soon be charged. The formal investigation began only in April 2022. They have not finished the investigation. It's good to remain neutral and see facts without emotions. There is plenty of evidence available in the public domain and some of them is available in this thread and the resources for knowing more about them are mentioned here. The trial will take time. Things move slow here. The trial should take place in October by the earliest or by early 2024.

He has been charged with human trafficking in continued form, rape in continued form, and forming an organized criminal gang. It's been two months. Here are the charges for Andrew and Tristan. Second set of charges are incoming soon. These charges one could be the biggest blow by far for Team Tate since it's expected to be about 1) Minor Trafficking. 2) Money laundering. 3) Favouring the perpetrators. 4) Influencing statements. Imagine even being investigated for trafficking minors for making pornographic content. It's so over. Any public figure that even remotely supports him is not going to judged well. It's so bad, like supporting J.Epstein. Nothing short of reputational suicide. Not even close. The court evaluated the brothers net worth to be 10 mill. That's the total assets for two people as found by the court. At best there were a few months where he earned a lot from HU, around a couple of millions/month. He was putting a facade for the most part. Highly likely that he rented his planes and yacht. To remain truly neutral requires a lot of work. Giving Tate the benefit of doubt is not being neutral. There hasn't been any competent authority speaking up for Tate's opposition. He had unanimous control over the narrative.

It's so over bros.

Such sort of corporate & employee agreements do not work in any other country. So the state need to step in on behalf of the employee to mandate min wages.

They do have minimums wage implemented through agreements with the workers as said in the article. Corporations do get bailed out by govt so it's okay to mandate a min wage. It's long gone when min wage should be doubled.

Recently I read a post by Leo that pursuing a life of higher development must come with high cost. You have to put up with lots of suffering. What I thought was that suffering is a bug in reality. That something that you are doing is fundamentally wrong when you are suffering. Do you miss out on Life by suffering? Does pursuing the Good life by extraordinary levels of suffering come with significant rewards? Should you try to minimise suffering? What is the correct way to suffer? Should you let yourself suffer endlessly or should you call ut quit? Thoughts?

It's important to see that you are addicted to this drama, non sense and bullshit. Not at the God level, but at the human personal level. You kind of like suffering like a masochist. The kind of experience and little treats that you get from suffering. That makes yourself too attached to suffering, even while suffering is totally imaginary in this game of life that God imagine. It's like deducting points from the game or something silly like that. Suffering exists as a part of the game, which serves as a crucial compenent to make it real. If you were totally liberated from suffering, you wouldn't want to do that, you would want tot go back to imagining Suffering. ---- These are just my musings. @DefinitelyNotARobot nothing is being put on a pedestal. This is merely questioning and contemplating the nature of suffering. Suffering is an integral part of life and it is better that we address that it doesn't become a thorn in the ass later. Entire spiritual systems have been made solely to escape suffering. So it's better to take control and understand suffering for what it is than getting lost in ideologies inspired by escaping suffering.

Posting all my thoughts from contemplating suffering: Suffering is a an important feature in the imagination of reality by God to make it real. Which is why it's so hard to get anything done, things always go sideways, and life is just pain no matter whatever you do. You can never escape from the costs even if go obsess every single fibre of your to living correctly. There is just endless suffering. Suffering is simply imagined by God for no real reason, actually. It simply is imagined as a feature of reality to make it more real. There need not be any cause and effect between suffering and the things that causes suffering. Even that relationship is imaginary and wouldn't exist unless imagined. I think a worthwhile life is when you have a lot of ups and downs. Suffer a lot as well as enjoy a lot. Suffering is like a cost. And you can reduce the net cost by restricting yourself from engaging in transactions at all. And you can maximize the value from those few transactions you actually engage in. I think a conservative worldview is the best if you want to completely mitigate suffering. Amd you can have a bit of joy as well occasionally. The entire conservative setup is so nice if you think about it. And most of these liberal are also conservative who happened to be slightly more privileged, so don't get lost in the conservative vs liberal fallacy.